Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Dependency Injection is a programming paradigm that has recently been gaining considerable popularity within the Microsoft .NET Framework community. Applying it will force decisions to be made about ...

Before you can begin refactoring, you need to know what to look for. I'm a very visual person, so whenever I work on refactoring a large or complex application, I begin by whiteboarding all components ...

Follow these best practices to eliminate God objects and design classes that are loosely coupled, cohesive, and easy to maintain In object-oriented programming (OOP), so-called God objects are an anti ...

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The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Timothy Gilboy in his ...

In the rush to embrace coding assistants like Amazon CodeWhisperer to generate new code for developers, we haven’t spent much time asking if that code is any good. By some measures, the answer is ...

I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

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When I'm flailing about in code, I often quickly slap something together just to get it working and then go back to clean it up with simpler structures. Real developers commonly refactor their code in ...